"I'm pretty sure I own firearms that can launch a projectile all the way across Long Island and still go through a Volvo at the end of the trajectory."
And that would prove...?
That Long Island is not the vast agricultural preserve you think it formerly was, that has now been despoiled by greedy developers and homeowners.
I am simply not comfortable unless I am somewhere I can see 10,000'+ mountain peaks from 100+ miles away.